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The word Muskingum ( ) derives from a similarly sounding Delaware ( Native American) word, which some claim to translate as 'Eye of the Elk', but most likely means 'Swampy Ground'. Muskingum may refer to: * Muskingum (village), an 18th-century Native American community * Muskingum University * Muskingum County, Ohio * Muskingum County Speedway * Muskingum River * Muskingum Island Muskingum Island ( ) is a long narrow shoal, bar island on the Ohio River in Wood County, West Virginia, Wood County, West Virginia between the towns of Moore Junction, Ohio, Moore Junction, Ohio and Boaz, West Virginia, Boaz, West Virginia. The is ..., an island in the Ohio River * Muskingum Township, Ohio (other) (two different townships) {{disambig ...
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Lenape
The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. The Lenape's historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, all of New Jersey, the eastern Pennsylvania regions of the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, and New York Bay, western Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley in New York (state), New York state. Today communities are based in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. During the last decades of the 18th century, European settlers and the effects of the American Revolutionary War displaced most Lenape from their homelands and pushed them north and west. In the 1860s, under the Indian removal policy, the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government relocated most Lenape remaining in the Eastern United States to the Indian Territory and surrounding regions. The la ...
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Native Americans In The United States
Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the indigenous peoples of North or South America. The United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", whom it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America ... and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment". The census does not, however, enumerate "Native Americans" as such, noting that the latter term can encompass a broader set of groups, e.g. Native Hawaiians, which it tabulates separately. The European colonization of the Americas from 1492 resulted in a Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, precipitous decline in the size of the Native American ...
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Muskingum (village)
Muskingum (also known as Conchake) was a Wyandot village in southeastern Ohio from 1747 to 1755. It was an important trade center in the early 1750s, until it was devastated by smallpox in the winter of 1752. The town was repopulated for a short time afterwards, then abandoned again as a new community was established by Netawatwees a few miles to the east at Gekelukpechink. The city of Coshocton, Ohio was founded close to the site of the village in 1802. Etymology The name ''Muskingum'' may come from the Shawnee word ''mshkikwam'' 'swampy ground'. The name may also be from Lenape ''"Mach kawënshàk,"'' referring to thorns, or a specific species of thorn bush. ''Muskingum'' has also been taken to mean 'elk's eye' (''mus wəshkinkw'') by folk etymology, as in ''mus'' 'elk' + ''wəshkinkw'' 'its eye'. Moravian missionary David Zeisberger wrote that the Muskingum River was called Elk's Eye "because of the numbers of elk that formerly fed on its banks." John McCullough, a captiv ...
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Muskingum University
Muskingum University is a private university in New Concord, Ohio, United States. Chartered in 1837 as Muskingum College, the institution is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). New Concord is located in far eastern Muskingum County, which derives its name from the Muskingum River. It offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and graduate programs and enrolled 2,100 students in 2023. Muskingum's campus consists of 21 buildings, a football stadium, and a small lake which all sit atop of rolling hills overlooking New Concord. Alumni are referred to as the "Long Magenta Line" and students are known simply as "Muskies", while its athletic teams are called the "Fighting Muskies". History In 1827, the National Road (now US 40) was laid through what is now New Concord, roughly following what had been the primitive roadway known as Zane's Trace. A year later, the village of New Concord was established by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. On July 9, 1836, the first recorded meeti ...
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Muskingum County, Ohio
Muskingum County ( ) is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,410. Its county seat is Zanesville. Nearly bisected by the Muskingum River, the county name is based on a Delaware American Indian word translated as "town by the river" or "elk's eye". Muskingum County comprises the Zanesville, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH Combined Statistical Area. The Zanesville Micropolitan Statistical Area is the second-largest statistical area within the Combined Statistical Area, after the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area. Name The name ''Muskingum'' may come from the Shawnee word ''mshkikwam'' 'swampy ground'. The name may also be from Lenape ''"Machkigen,"'' referring to thorns, or a specific species of thorn bush. ''Muskingum'' has also been taken to mean 'elk's eye' (''mus wəshkinkw'') by folk etymology, as in ''mus'' 'elk' + ' ...
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Muskingum County Speedway
Muskingum County Speedway, located in Zanesville, Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ..., United States is a dirt oval racetrack. Since 2005 has annually held the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series ''Creno's 50'' race on July 3. Major events Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series History Louie Morosco built the Zanesville Speedway about 1940. The track was closed for a few years during World War II. Over the years, the track and surrounding area have seen several changes. Early the track was a short dirt track. At one point it became an asphalt speedway. Between the 1970 and 1971 seasons it was lengthened to 1/2 mile and clay returned as the racing surface. Grandstands were added through these years from different materials. There was the turn 4 hill that fans could u ...
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Muskingum River
The Muskingum River ( ; ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio. Via the Ohio, it is part of the Mississippi River drainage basin, watershed. The river is navigable for much of its length through a series of locks and dams. Course The Muskingum is formed at Coshocton, Ohio, Coshocton in east-central Ohio by the confluence of the Walhonding River, Walhonding and Tuscarawas River, Tuscarawas rivers. It flows in a meandering course southward past Conesville, Ohio, Conesville and Dresden, Ohio, Dresden to Zanesville, Ohio, Zanesville, and then southeastward past South Zanesville, Ohio, South Zanesville, Philo, Ohio, Philo, Gaysport, Ohio, Gaysport, Malta, Ohio, Malta, McConnelsville, Ohio, McConnelsville, Beverly, Ohio, Beverly, Lowell, Ohio, Lowell, Stockport, Ohio, Stockport and Devola, Ohio, Devola. ...
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Muskingum Island
Muskingum Island ( ) is a long narrow shoal, bar island on the Ohio River in Wood County, West Virginia, Wood County, West Virginia between the towns of Moore Junction, Ohio, Moore Junction, Ohio and Boaz, West Virginia, Boaz, West Virginia. The island is mostly covered in forests and contains a number of oil wells. Since 1995, a site on Muskingum Island has been used as a pulse-point for the native mussel population health in the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge which the island is a part. See also *List of islands of West Virginia References

River islands of West Virginia Islands of Wood County, West Virginia Islands of the Ohio River West Virginia placenames of Native American origin {{WoodCountyWV-geo-stub ...
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